applecart14
Well-Known Member
Well it will be over five months since our horses came off the grass paddocks last year. Since this time my horse and the other liveries horses have been going out in pairs into the sandpit where they have been able to have a roll, buck, kick and a f**t as the YO fondly calls it.
My horse was injured at the end of December, in what the vet termed as a 'slight suspensory branch strain' as a result of some tom foolery on the end of the lunge! He's been walked and trotted in straight lines, and I am in the process of getting a video together to send to the vet to ascertain whether he is able to start canter work again. The vet has told me the prognosis is very good for a full return to work although I may be curbing his workload in respect of jumping competitions maybe a lot or maybe possibly altogether although jumping has had no bearing on this injury.
There is no swelling, he is non reactive to the tendon test squeeze the vet showed me to do, and he has his ice vibe boots on prior and following any additional work in the school to which he appears to be coping very well. We have been doing trot poles for the last week and he will break into a canter every now and again just because he feels well, not because I have asked him!
I am worried about turning him out for the first time. I think they are going into a paddock each (probably about 30m x 40m in size) before they go into the 'big field' and i am panicking a little about what to put on his legs. I will ask the YO if we can be present when they are out for the first time and I am wondering if I should bandage. Knowing what my horse is like, he will probably have his head down for the full hour stuffing his face but I suppose the danger comes in the days afterwards when the grass gets a bit sparse and he starts having a mad fit! I have tried him on the sedative stuff from the vet, before that is a derivative of mares milk and it was very good so was thinking about that again.
What do you do when your horse goes out after a long period off grass (but not necessarily in altogether)?
My horse was injured at the end of December, in what the vet termed as a 'slight suspensory branch strain' as a result of some tom foolery on the end of the lunge! He's been walked and trotted in straight lines, and I am in the process of getting a video together to send to the vet to ascertain whether he is able to start canter work again. The vet has told me the prognosis is very good for a full return to work although I may be curbing his workload in respect of jumping competitions maybe a lot or maybe possibly altogether although jumping has had no bearing on this injury.
There is no swelling, he is non reactive to the tendon test squeeze the vet showed me to do, and he has his ice vibe boots on prior and following any additional work in the school to which he appears to be coping very well. We have been doing trot poles for the last week and he will break into a canter every now and again just because he feels well, not because I have asked him!
I am worried about turning him out for the first time. I think they are going into a paddock each (probably about 30m x 40m in size) before they go into the 'big field' and i am panicking a little about what to put on his legs. I will ask the YO if we can be present when they are out for the first time and I am wondering if I should bandage. Knowing what my horse is like, he will probably have his head down for the full hour stuffing his face but I suppose the danger comes in the days afterwards when the grass gets a bit sparse and he starts having a mad fit! I have tried him on the sedative stuff from the vet, before that is a derivative of mares milk and it was very good so was thinking about that again.
What do you do when your horse goes out after a long period off grass (but not necessarily in altogether)?